Which Side to Stand On?
Knock knock knock——
After knocking gently, Chen Ling entered Teacher Ye's office.
"This ti it's really all thanks to you." Teacher Ye stood in front of the window, as if he had already seen the scene of Chen Ling returning just now. He smiled and turned around,
"On behalf of Little White and the others, as well as all other Integration Faction mbers, I express my gratitude to you."
"We're all our own people, there's no need to be so polite." Chen Ling sat down on the chair with easy familiarity. "Moreover, my harvest this ti is also not small..."
Teacher Ye was taken aback. He carefully sized up Chen Ling for a mont, seemingly detecting a subtle change in temperant, and spoke in surprise:
"You did Slaughtering the Calamity again?"
"Mhm, this ti I ran into people from the Scarlet Heaven Cult, and had no choice but to slaughter once more..."
Teacher Ye first furrowed his brow, then walked a circle around Chen Ling, finding it unbelievable:
"Strange... Judging from the Aura, your Slaughtering the Calamity this ti is even fiercer than the last ti... But why didn't the negative emotions of Mockery increase at all this ti? Even the faint hostility at the bottom of your eyes from before has disappeared."
In Chen Ling's mind, he imdiately recalled the bizarre black shadow he vomited out when on the Stage. He only rembered that a large number of Audience mbers actually actively drilled into his body at that ti, almost making his mind collapse. Unconsciously, the thing he vomited out stuck away one Advancent condition, then disappeared into the audience seats, never appearing again.
Chen Ling hesitated for a mont, but still recounted the process again, only hiding the situation regarding the Stage, only ntioning the part where he fought with Mockery.
After listening, Teacher Ye's complexion visibly turned ugly.
"Teacher Ye, what exactly is this situation?"
"... Not too good." Teacher Ye pondered for a mont, "Actually, I had so misgivings before... Mockery is a Calamity with extrely severe internal strife. Every single individual has a rebellious self-consciousness. As a mber of them, your controlling this body has already made them green with envy. Now you have successively done Slaughtering the Calamity twice, devoured a large number of individuals, and beco abnormally strong...
To them, you are like a suddenly rising variable, even having the possibility of devouring all other individuals with your own strength alone, completely controlling Mockery, so..."
"Are you saying, they will unite to target ?" Chen Ling imdiately understood Teacher Ye's aning.
"Exactly."
Teacher Ye slowly spoke, "To the nurous consciousnesses of Mockery, if the final winner cannot be themselves, then simply let no one win, continuously maintaining a chaotic state... This is the 'balance' of Mockery.
Now, you are step by step breaking this 'balance'.
When they realize that in a one-on-one situation no one is your opponent, naturally they can only think of a way to create another 'you', an identical monster, to counterbalance you."
Hearing this, Chen Ling's expression was sowhat helpless.
This bunch of Audience mbers actually united because of him... Wanting to control Mockery was indeed not that simple.
"Then how should I resolve it?"
"This, you can only rely on yourself." Teacher Ye shook his head, "Your situation has no sample reference since ancient tis... Outsiders cannot help you, you can only grope for it yourself."
"... Fine."
Chen Ling sighed, the pressure of his studies had increased again.
"There is also a very important matter..." Chen Ling's expression turned serious again.
He told Teacher Ye the whole process of his encounter with the Thought Calamity, including those few images about the Red Star.
But exceeding Chen Ling's expectations, Teacher Ye didn't seem surprised by these. After quietly listening, he nodded slightly:
"During this period of ti, you have been concentrating on your studies in the Integration Faction, and indeed don't understand the situation outside very well... In today's Human Domains, the second coming of the Red Star is no longer a secret, even the Lord of Tianshu Lu Xun has calculated the specific ti of descent."
Chen Ling rembered the rumors about the Tianshu Domain being a large-scale calculation device, and imdiately asked:
"What is the specific ti?"
"About eleven months."
"So fast???"
In Chen Ling's mind, the destruction scene after the Red Star streaked across surfaced again. Although he stuffed one of those images into Jian Changsheng's brain to give him so sense of crisis, relying on the other few was also enough to describe the apocalyptic scene.
The last ti the Red Star descended, it led to the death of 99% of the global population. The remaining survivors Barely Clinging to Life under the protection of the Nine Monarchs for over three hundred years, which only then resulted in the current era... If the Red Star really descended upon the Earth again in eleven months, could humanity survive this ti?
"But what does the second coming of the Red Star have to do with ? Why did the Thought Calamity go through so much trouble to contact and ask to return to the Ghost Mockery Abyss?"
"Do you think that for the second coming of the Red Star, only humans are nervous?"
Teacher Ye looked out the window. Under the lead-gray clouds, deep in the barren earth, so Calamity figures could still be faintly seen sprinting rapidly,
"Three hundred years have passed, the intersection between the Gray World and the Earth is already too deep. It's like a layer of 'gray shell' wrapped outside this world. If the Red Star really descends again, the one to bear the brunt first won't be Earth... but the Gray World."
Hearing this, a thought streaked across Chen Ling's mind like lightning. He imdiately grasped sothing, his brow furrowing tighter and tighter!
"If that's the case, doesn't it an..."
"Before a natural disaster descends, the first to have early warning will definitely be wild beasts... And for any clan, after knowing that their holand is about to be annihilated, the first choice will inevitably be migration."
Teacher Ye looked into Chen Ling's eyes, his gaze incomparably complicated,
"Take a guess, after these Calamities in the Gray World realize the arrival of the Red Star... where will they choose to migrate to?"
"The Human Domains!"
Chen Ling blurted out.
Since the Red Star is descending, the first to be hit is the "shell" of the Gray World, so the only choice for the Calamities is to madly approach the relatively safe "core"... And on Earth, the only places not occupied by the Gray World are the few Human Domains.
"So saying, the Thought Calamity asking to go back was to gather all the Calamities in the Ghost Mockery Abyss and lead them to attack the Human Domains?"
"Not just you, the other five World-Ending Calamities are already preparing for war in their respective territories." Teacher Ye pointed at the barren earth outside the Mother Tree,
"When you ca back, didn't you find it strange? Except for the areas of those World-Ending territories, not many scattered Calamities can be seen in other places of the Gray World..."
Only then did Chen Ling rember that this ti when he went to the Scarlet Heaven Sect Branch, along the way except for the Shadow Centipedes of the Ghost Mockery Abyss, it seed he really hadn't seen even one other Calamity...
"Now the entire Gray World, only the Ghost Mockery Abyss is Leaderless." Teacher Ye looked at Chen Ling's eyes, as if wanting to see through his heart,
"Chen Ling, if one day in the future, a decisive battle breaks out between Calamities and Humans...
When that ti cos, which side will you stand on?"
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